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Louis XVI
At nineteen, Louis ascendes to the throne, his country nearly bankrupt. -
Raise in bread prices.
Louis appoints Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot as controller-general of finances. Which resulted in an increase in bread prices. -
Resistence.
Louis dismisses his minister who tried to reform the provincial parliments which was the main weapon of the upper class that opposed Louis' centralization of power. -
Flour Wars
Due to an increase in bread prices, riots break out in Dijon. These became known as the Flour Wars. -
Demonstration
Flour War participants riot and demonstrate in front of the Palace of Versailles. -
Call for resolve.
Government minister Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes advocates calling an estates-general to end the crisis. -
Squashed
By this time Turgot is able to put down most of the bread riots. -
The French Enter the War
France reluctantly recognizes the United States as a seperate country from Britain and are dragged into a war that will further their debt. -
Tiers Etat
Representatives of the tiers état form a National Assembly swearing not to leave until a new constitution is established. -
Rejection
The king rejects the Tiers Etat -
National Assembly declares itself Constituent Assembly
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Bastille
Armed citizens storm and capture the Bastille. It is a fortress. -
Lafayette appointed Commander of National Guard
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‘Great Fear’ begins as peasants revolt across France
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Fuedilism
National Assembly decrees abolition of feudilism. -
Rights of man
National Assembly decrees Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen -
Paris
The King returns to Paris -
Jews
Removal of civil disabilities against jews. -
TITLES
Abolition of nobility and titles -
Civil constitution
Civil constitution subbortinating the church to the civil government inagurated by king Louis XVI -
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Riots
Food riots across Paris -
Civil rights.
Black citizen of French colonies granted equal rights. -
Flees
Louis XVI attempts to flee to Varennes but is recognised and forcibly returned to Paris. -
Violence
National guard fires upon crowd protesting against restoration of the King. -
The king
The king formally accepts the Constitution -
War
France declares war on Austria, but French army flees at the sight of the enemy. -
Jacobins
Jacobin Insurrection again thwarted by gestures from the King, jacobins continue to defy the assembly, -
Swiss Guard.
Jacobin masses storm the Tuileries Palace, massacring the Swiss Guard, and the King imprisoned. -
Lafayette
Lafayette flees to Austria -
Riots
Royalist riots in the Vendée, Britanny; armies suffer setbacks at Langwy and Verdun. -
trial
Trial of the King begins -
Evacuation
Louis XVI is evacuated -
War... again.
France declares war on Britain and Holland -
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Riots
Popular riots in Paris -
Marie
Marie Anntoinette tried and executed -
Churches.
The churches reopen for christian worship -
Napoleon
Napoleon assumes command of french army in italy. -
emporer
Napoleon consecrated as Emporer
